Early in 1929 the British Museum acquired a lot of two dozen small bronzes. Mr. Reginald Smith gave a preliminary account of them and illustrated eighteen in the British Museum Quarterly. The Society is indebted to the Trustees of the British Museum for the loan of these plates (our 1 and 11). Mr. Smith was good enough to suggest that I should treat them in greater detail in the Antiquaries Journal.

The last Interim Report on the excavations at Glastonbury was read before this Society on 29th November 1928, and a precis of this report was printed in vol. lxxiv of the Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological Society.

On July 4, 1928, I had an urgent message to call at the Bursledon Brick Co's. works as the men were again working on the site described in the Journal, which they had abandoned n i October 1927 for another sector of the clay pits, and had found evidence of a deeper shaft.

The Musée du Louvre has lately received as a gift from the City of Paris–in whose historical museum, the Carnavalet, they had been preserved–five English alabaster reliefs: a ‘Betrayal’, complete, but with a weathered surface; a fine ‘Christ led to Judgement’; a fragmentary ‘Christ before Pilate’; a ‘Naming of St. John’; and a ‘St. Michael and the Blessed Virgin’.

In a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B, vol. 209, pp. 329–50, 1920) I described the relationship of the rostro-carinate flint implements of the East Anglian Pliocene deposits, to the later palaeolithic hand-axes, and illustrated my remarks by means of several specimens of transitional form found in various parts of this country. Since this paper appeared I have examined a large number of implements which show, in the clearest manner, the above-mentioned relationship, and this is especially the case with the two specimens described in this note.

During the last two years gravel for building purposes has been taken from a field at Aston Tirrold; and large quantities of pottery of second- and third-century date, animal bones, parts of two human skeletons, and three coins have been turned up by the spade. Below the gravel the teeth and bones of prehistoric animals have been found.